# lucasg/Dependencies

A rewrite of the old legacy software "depends.exe" in C# for Windows devs to troubleshoot dll load dependencies issues.

Repository: https://github.com/lucasg/Dependencies
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/dependencies
Language: C#
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: windows, dll, wpf, csharp
Last push: 2024-05-15T00:55:24+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3356, "days_push": 841, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 11781, forks 942 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:49.774077+00:00)

## What it is
A modern open-source rewrite of the legacy Dependency Walker (depends.exe) tool, written in C#, for analyzing Windows DLL load dependencies. It ships as both a GUI application and a CLI tool that display module imports, exports, and dependency trees.

## Use cases
- troubleshoot dll load dependencies issues on Windows
- view imports and exports of a PE file
- find missing dll dependencies for an executable
- analyze api set and sxs assembly dependencies
- demangle C++ symbols from a binary
- replace the outdated Dependency Walker on modern Windows

## When to choose
- you need to debug why a DLL fails to load on Windows
- you want a maintained, modern alternative to depends.exe
- you need both GUI and CLI dependency analysis of PE files
- you work with x86/x64 binaries and apisets on Windows 8.1+

## When to avoid
- you need dependency analysis on Linux or macOS
- you need static analysis of non-PE binary formats like ELF or Mach-O
- you need automated dependency resolution or patching rather than inspection

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: stable
- function: developer-tools, cli, gui, reverse-engineering
- domain: developer-tools, windows
- platform: windows, cli
- tags: dependency-walker, dll, pe-analysis, imports-exports, apisets, troubleshooting, debugging, desktop

## Member repositories
- lucasg/Dependencies (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:49.774077+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:15:19.978538+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/lucasg/Dependencies (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:49.774077+00:00, sha b3c93280814a)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.